46 itemsWelcome to Personal Archiving

Personal Digital Archiving 2011

Thursday, February 24 & Friday, February 25, 2011
Internet Archive
300 Funston Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94118

From family photographs and personal papers to health and financial information, vital personal records are becoming digital. Creation and capture of digital information has become a part of the daily routine for hundreds of millions of people. But what are the long-term prospects for this data?

The combination of new capture devices (more than 1 billion camera phones will be sold in 2010) and new types of media are reshaping both our personal and collective memories. Personal collections are growing in size and complexity. As these collections spread across different media (including film and paper!), we are redrawing the lines between personal and professional data, and between published and unpublished information.

For individuals, institutions, investors, entrepreneurs, and funding agencies thinking about how best to address these issues, Personal Digital Archiving 2011 will clarify the technical, social, economic questions around personal archiving.

This conference is the second in a series; past attendees included representatives from UC Berkeley, Stanford, UNC, UT Austin, the University of Illinois, and Oxford University; Microsoft, Yahoo (Labs, and Flickr), Google, and Amazon (S3); the Smithsonian, the Magnes Museum; Xerox PARC; the Center for Home Movies, the California Digital Library, Family Search, and the Coalition for Networked Information. Support was provided by the Internet Archive, the Bassetti Foundation, and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.

Day One

Welcome
Brewster Kahle (The Internet Archive)
Jeff Ubois, conference chair

Keynote: Cathy Marshall (Microsoft Research)

Major Projects in Personal Digital Archiving. Reports on one project with petabytes of personal materials, and another from one of the world’s great libraries.
Gary Wright (FamilySearch)
Jeremy Leighton John (British Library, Digital Lives)

Strategies, Tools & Services for Individuals. Tools and services for archiving personal data come and go, but the strategies for ensuring long term access to it are – or should be – more enduring. This session will focus on strategies individuals can apply, referencing particular tools and services as examples.
Evan Carroll (The Digital Beyond): The Lost Curator: Personal Digital Archives and the Death Transition
Ellysa Stern Cahoy & Scott McDonald (Penn State University Library): Curating Digital Intellectual Lives
Judith Zissman (Independent)

Makers: DIY Personal Archives. The experiences of individuals who have built their own personal archives and systems, and researchers who have tried to interpret such efforts, share their real world experiences.
Judith Zissman (Independent)
Stan James (Lijit Networks): The Smallest Day: A nerd and his Dad set out to digitize the family archives.
Jason Scott (Archive Team): The Splendiferous Story Of Archive Team And The Rapidly Disappearing Digital Heritage
Lori Kendall (University of Illinois): What do We Mean by Personal When We Consider Personal Digital Archives?

Personal Archiving Systems and Interfaces for Institutions. What are the experiences and design decisions of institutions that have built systems for personal digital archives?
Birkin James Diana (Brown University Digital Repository): Enriching the Digital Junk Drawer
Kathleen Legg (National Center for Atmospheric Research): Digital Collections at the NCAR Library and Archives: Archiving in the 21st Century
Jay Datema (Bookism) Constructing a Digital Identity Compatible with Institutional Archives

Making Sense of What’s Online. What are the best approaches to collecting, preserving, and interpreting social network data, news, and other online information?
Marc Smith (Connected Action Consulting Group): “Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Mapping and measuring social media networks to find key positions and structures”
Evan Prodromou (StatusNet): Open Standards for Social Data Exchange and Archiving
Ray Larson (UC Berkeley): The Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) Project
Ben Gross (Linde Group)

Economics. What are the costs of personal archiving? What new approaches to paying these costs are needed?
Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive)
Jeff Ubois (PrestoCentre): Wishful Thinking
Steve Griffin (Library of Congress / National Science Foundation): Perspectives on Funding
David S.H. Rosenthal (LOCKSS)

Closing Keynote: Brian Fitzpatrick, DataLiberation.Org

Evening talks & posters
Laura Welcher (Long Now Foundation): An Archive Model with Long Term Benefits
Debbie Weissman (independent): Personal Digital Archives as Information Preserves
Mark Carranza ”a detailed, searchable archive of one million plus ideas he has had since 1984″
Joanne Lang (AboutOne): Lessons Learned from releasing AboutOne.com beta – One place to securely manage household information
Susan Kostal (San Francisco Magazine) Digital Hoarding
Denim Smith (My Internet Corporation)
Jonathan Good (1000memories.com)
Michael Ashenfelder (Library of Congress)

Day Two

Keynote: Clifford Lynch (CNI)

Images: Capture and Collection. Billions of cameras are in the hands of billions of individuals. What is the future of this material? How will it be stored, accessed, and interpreted?
Daniel Reetz (DIY Book Scanner): What is everyone doing with all these cheap cameras?
Rich Gibson (Gigapan Project): Capturing personal and shared spaces with explorable gigapixel imagery
Dwight Swanson (Center for Home Movies)

User Studies. Careful observation of archival practices reveal some surprising things about user behavior; this session covers the results of four such studies.
Devin Becker (University of Idaho) & Collier Nogues (University of California, Irvine): ‘CTRL-S’ is Poor Archival Practice: A Report on the Digital Archiving Practices of Emerging Writers.
Hong Zhang (University of Illinois): File Folders on Computers in Personal Digital Archiving
Jason Zalinger (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute): Gmail as a storyworld: Designing to make sense of our digital life stories
Aiden Doherty & Cathal Gurrin (Dublin City University): Cognitively Motivated Lifelog Software, what works and what frustrates

Perspectives from Computer Industry Founders. Reflections on the challenges of preserving ideas and creations.
Ed Feigenbaum, Stanford University
Christina Engelbart
Ted Nelson, (Xanadu): “How We Laughed: History, Keepage, Remembrance and Cram”

Teaching, Professional Development & Theory. Personal digital archiving is fast becoming professionalized; how can it be taught, formalized appropriately, and re-conceived?
Cal Lee (University of North Carolina)
Richard Cox (University of Pittsburgh): Personal Digital Archiving, the Diminishing Information Age, and the Archival Paradigm
Mark Matienzo (Yale University Library) & Amelia Abreu (Information School, University of Washington): Archival Sense-making: Personal digital archiving as an iteration

Personal Health Data. Perhaps the most critical personal data relates to health. What is and will be collected, how will it be stored and shared?
Dave Marvit (Vice President, Fujitsu Laboratories of America)
Gordon Bell (Microsoft Research)
Linda Branagan, PhD (Director, Telemedicine Products, Medweb)
Khaled Hassounah (MedHelp)

Forensics, Privacy, Security. What is the proper boundary between public and private data? How far should archivists go in collecting what might be private data?
Kam Woods (University of North Carolina)
Sam Meister (University of Maryland), The Personal in the Organizational: a discussion of issues and implications of personal data embedded within the records of failed businesses.
Elizabeth Churchill (Yahoo! Research)

Keynote: Rudy Rucker, Sr. (science fiction author) Lifebox

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